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Hi, first I am sorry for not writing for so long, but I had an oral eximination (history of right) which is my “favourite” subject😉. Ahhm … and I failed.

Now I have a bit of free time I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my laptop. I wanted to let all the old stuff behind because I had backed up the data earlier, so I did not use the migration assistant. (Hey migration from Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake was possible😉 ) The first thing that annoyed me was, that Ubuntu still does not support the screen resolution 1400×1040 out of the box. I knew 915resolution from the past so I wanted to use it again. Installation of 915resolution:

The first thing is to get 915resolution from universe.sudo apt-get install 915resolution I thought: Wow everything is fine, it detected my screen resolution and automatically patched it. So I restarted the X-Server with CtrlAlt← but the old resolution was still used.

So I patched it manually. sudo 915resolution 3c 1400 1050 Note: You should call 915resolution -l before and replace 3c with a resolution you will not use.

To test it press CtrlAlt← to restart the X-Server. For me this worked and I had a clear 1400×1050 resolution on my desk.

Because you need to patch this everytime you restart your laptop you should automate this task:

Open an editor with root privileges (eg. sudo gedit).

Insert the following lines:

#!/bin/bash 915resolution
3c 1400 1050

Save it as /etc/init.d/resolutionfix.sh

To make the file executable do the following:sudo chmod +rx /etc/init.d/resolutionfix.sh

Now insert the script into the start sequence:sudo update-rc.d resolutionfix.sh defaults